Process

Loop closure

You might say: recognising a revisited place

Loop closure recognizes a previously visited place and adds a constraint that can correct the trajectory and map.

What it does
Removes accumulated drift when a route returns to known evidence.
Ask
How are perceptual aliases rejected before a false closure distorts the map?
Trouble
A false loop closure can impose a wrong global constraint and bend the map into an inconsistent shape.

What to look for

  1. Previously visited place recognized
  2. Trajectory and map corrected
  3. Drift reduced on a return route
  4. Inconsistent map after a false closure

Connections

Sources

  1. Cesar Cadena et al., Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age, Survey of robustness and loop closureBy finding loop closures, the robot understands the real topology of the environment, and is able to find shortcuts between locations (e.g., point B and C in the map).
  2. Jürgen Sturm et al., Evaluating Egomotion and Structure-from-Motion Approaches Using the TUM RGB-D Benchmark, Sec. III, sequences with loop closuresExcept otherwise noted, we ensured that each sequence contains several loop closures to allow SLAM systems to recognize previously visited areas and use this to reduce camera drift.

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